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articulations of the various bones. So, too. with the carpus and 

 tarsus ; they might be studied as a whole, their bony landmarks 

 carefully noted and their mechanism understood without burdening 

 the memory with the exact shape of the facets on each individual 

 bone. 



Our efforts to perpetuate the memories of illustrious anatomists 

 by coupling their names with the structures they described is praise- 

 worthy, but bought too dearly ; think of the mental effort to remem- 

 ber which are the foramina of Stenson and which of Scarpa, which is 

 Scarpa's fascia and which Camper's. It is fairer perhaps to attack 

 living than dead anatomists, because the former can reply, so I will 

 single out the ligament of Lockwood, the bloodless fold of Treves and 

 the groove of Lucas as being instances of inconsiderate nomenclature, 

 and, though these perhaps cannot now be changed, I hope that future 

 descriptions will be labelled with names of a greater descriptive, 

 though less historic, value. 



With the time and brain power thus set free I would expect a 

 really good knowledge of the viscera under different normal condi- 

 tions, of superficial anatomy and of the central and peripheral nervous 

 system. In return for excusing the small arteries and their anasto- 

 moses I should expect an exact knowledge of the position of the large 

 trunks as well as of the position and drainage area of all the main 

 lymphatic glands. In return for not greatly caring how many sur- 

 faces a bone " presented for examination," I should want details of 

 its epiphysial lines and their relations to the joint capsule, of its 

 mechanism and weakest points. I should not care so much about 

 the exact shape of the articular surfaces of a joint as about the extent 

 and limits of its synovial membrane. Above all things I would lay 

 no stress on that Greek classification of the joints which I find willing- 

 students are at such pains to commit to memory and to retain until 

 the anatomy examination is over. Most of our students nowadays 

 have never learnt Greek, and how much the better is any practitioner 

 for his ability to fix " enarthrosis, symirthrosis, diarthrosis and amphi- 

 arthrosis " to the kind of joint which it represents ? Many a good 



